Re: Request for feedback :)

[Dieter Van der Stock <dietervds () gmail com>]

Thanks for the fast response Diman and Guilherme.

Apparently Nagios and Umit already do pretty much what I wanted to do.
Nagios being a lot more advanced, and Umit being where I wanted to be at the
end of my thesis (at first glance).
Somehow I missed those applications during my research..

I'm probably going to contact Umit about SoC after I've decently read up on
them and their idea's, and I'm going to talk about them and Nagios to my
collegues here.

Thanks again for the feedback!

With regards,

Dieter

2009/3/25 Diman Todorov <diman.todorov () gmail com>

> how is that different from nagios[1]?
>
> diman
>
> [1] http://www.nagios.org/
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Dieter Van der Stock
> <dietervds () gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > my name is Dieter Van der Stock. I'm a college student studying for Civil
> > Engineer - Computer Science in Belgium, and a beginning security
> > enthousiast. I'm new to the dev-list and to security-tools development in
> > general, so please forgive any technical shortcomings :)
> >
> > For my thesis I'm making a program based on nmap and ndiff, which I would
> > like to share with the open-source world if you guys think it could be of
> > use. If the feedback is positive enough, I would like to suggest the
> further
> > development of it for the GSoc program during my summer holiday.
> >
> > The problem that my tool would try to adress is the following: the
> company
> > that asked me to make it do a lot of broadband research like performance
> > testing, deployment and testing of new broadband applications and so on.
> > Because of this research they often have to fiddle with the firewalls
> which,
> > as a result, often end up being misconfigured.
> > The admin would like a simple interface where they can program portscans
> of
> > their network, which then alerts them of any sudden changes every time
> that
> > the scan is re-run by the tool.
> > To make an already long story short: it would serve as a way of making
> the
> > cron-nmap-ndiff cycle transparant and automated to the admins. One can
> enter
> > several assignments through a webinterface which can vary in duration,
> > targets, interval, detail, etc, and he will only be bothered by the
> results
> > of the diff if it's worth it.
> >
> > Obviously I describe it only briefly here, but I'm hoping that it can
> become
> > a useful tool for other administrators out there to check for sudden
> changes
> > in their network.
> > So I hereby ask for your feedback :) Any comments are welcome.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> >
> > Dieter
> >
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